Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical, to cover or guard by winding with something.
- Same as
keck - To cackle; chuckle.
- noun A chuckle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb See
keck , v. i. & n. - transitive verb (Naut.) To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb nautical To wind
rope orchains around (acable etc.) to protect its surface fromfriction ,abrasion , orice .
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Examples
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Now isn't that stean at any rate -- he hammered it with his stick as he spoke -- a pack of lies? and won't it make Gabriel keckle when Geordie comes pantin 'up the grees with the tombstean balanced on his hump, and asks it to be took as evidence!
Dracula 1897
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Miss Becky Glibbans gave a satirical keckle at this, and showed her superior learning, by explaining to Mrs. Craig the unbroken nature of the kingly office.
The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809
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And won’t it make Gabriel keckle when Geordie comes pantin’ ut the grees with the tompstean balanced on his hump, and asks to be took as evidence!”
Dracula 2003
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Sandy gae a keckle o 'a host, an' syne he says, "Now, boys an 'girls an' people, the first picture I'm genna show you is Danyil in the den
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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Gabriel keckle when Geordie comes pantin 'ut the grees with the tompstean balanced on his hump, and asks to be took as evidence! "
Dracula Bram Stoker 1879
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